EFCC Arraigns Man for N4.5m Love ScamThe
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on September 21, 2015
arraigned one Amadi Jude before Justice Emmanuel Obile of the Federal
High Court Calabar, Cross River State on a 12-count charge bordering on
obtaining money by false pretence.
Amadi
who goes by different pseudo names – Richard Smith, Mike Anderson,
Richard Darwin, Jackson Miller, and Morgan Abela, is alleged to have
collected N4,544,000 from a Swedish national, and promised to marry
her.
Count
one reads: “That you, Amadi Jude Junior (alias Richard smith, Mike
Anderson, Richard Darwin, Jackson Miller, Morgan Abela) ‘m’, John
Ikechukwu Efughi (at large), and Farouk (at large), between May 2014 and
January 2015 in Calabar, Cross River State, within the jurisdiction of
this honourable court did conspire among yourselves to commit felony
with it: obtaining money by false pretence and thereby committed an
offence contrary to section 8 (a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other
Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under section 1 (3) of
the same act.”
The accused person pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
Justice Obile, adjourned till October 12, 2015 and ordered the accused person be remanded in prison custody.
Wilson Uwujaren
Head, Media & Publicity
23rd September, 2015
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